Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.